Poet Quotes - Page 30

• I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

  Denis

  Notebook, Littles, Serious

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• The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

  Babette Deutsch

  Men, Speaks Out, Poetry

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• I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Emotional, Poetry, Facts

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.

  Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

  Simple, Class, Justice

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• ... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.

  Jan Clausen

  Integrity, Poetry, Feminism

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• Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
  And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

  Etheridge Knight

  Death, Dust, Feet

  Etheridge Knight (1986). “The Essential Etheridge Knight”, p.55, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• Black Poets should live--not leap
  From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  Etheridge Knight

  Boys, Bridges, White

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.

  Multatuli

  Truth, Poetry, Doe

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• When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

  Brian Patten

  Sight, Clothes, Poetry

  Brian Patten (2007). “Selected Poems”, ePenguin

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• Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

  Kwame Dawes

  Stars, Prayer, Writing

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• Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

  Grace Zabriskie

  People, Faces, Actresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

  Graham Hawkes

  Religious, Justice, Darkness

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• Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

  Cornel West

  Creative, Missing, Generations

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• Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

  Alice Walker

  Lucky, Courageous

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• Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

  Anne Lamott

  Broken, Invisible, Said

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, 2012.

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Determination, Men, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Hero, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.282, Delphi Classics

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• Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Philosophical, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Thinking, Boredom

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Genius, Rendering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.194, Рипол Классик

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• A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Hope, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.97

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• The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Secret

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.398

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• Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.

  Wendy Rose

  Believe, Writing, Ethnicity

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• Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  David St. John

  Prayer, Ambition, Clothes

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